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The nuclear threat: a new start

02 Feb 2009

As US President Barack Obama takes office, his leadership will be needed to reduce the dangers of the world’s nuclear weapons and to stop nuclear materials from falling into rogue hands, argues Sidney Drell

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President Obama has said that he intends to “make the goal of eliminating all nuclear weapon

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Sidney Drell is a professor emeritus at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. For more than four decades he has been an advisor on technical national-security issues and arms control for the US government
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